In this reading Freud presents the case of Dr. Lorenz, a young lawyer who has been suffered of unjustified fears towards his loves ones, superstitions and a compulsive behavior that consisted in cutting his throat with a razor. Freud soon discovered that throughout his patients early years, he has experienced along the obsessive desire to see a naked woman the irrational fear that her father will die and then the development of absurd actions to punish himself for having this idea. Lorenz's obsession got worse when he was serving in the military and he was told by an officer about a method of punishment for criminals, which consisted in putting a pot full of rats on the buttocks of the criminal and the rats in the pot then will go into the criminal’s anus.
Freud explained that his patient’s hostility towards his girlfriend was hidden behind their suicidal impulses. For example, in one occasion his lady had to leave to take care of her ailing grandmother. His first reaction was to wish the death of the old lady and then commit suicide as a punishment imposed. What makes Lorenz's obsessive compulsive disorder particular is that it grouped several obsessions at once. He was obsessed that something bad will happen every time he dreams. He was obsessed about the rats killing his loves ones, his girlfriend and his father, even though, his father was already dead and he also has thoughts of having sex with different women.
This reading was kind of difficult to understand, but what I get from it was that this patient life is in a constant battle between love and hate for his father and his girlfriend. On one side, we have this smart, kind, cheerful person and on the other side, this sadistic, perverse and violent person.
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